Girls Day in NYC

Today I had the day off! Woot. I decided to treat myself by visiting a friend in NYC that I don't see often enough. It was just the right amount of food, beverage and conversation. Here is it in pictures...

The easy way to get there!

Stopped at a great vegan restaurant , Blossom, in the Chelsea section

Breakfast and drinks for lunch on a Monday. It's the new Monday Funday!

After lunch and two mimosas, why not have some dessert!

After walking the Chelsea Market, we stopped and had some happy  hour beer. Supporting local NY brewers! 

Every now and again you should treat yourself. I typically don't spend $50 on lunch, but when it's with a friend over good convo, splurge! Heck, I even bought blue mascara that day. Just doing something that makes you feel girlie (for the ladies of course, or gents if they prefer). You have to take care of yourself so that you can take care of others.

So my advice to you, take a week day off, go and splurge. <3 yourself!

We had an ugly foot stool

Good Morning! Well, it is on my end. It's really beautiful out for once. A nice cool breeze through the open windows. Ahh. I feel inspired!

This post will be a quick one, as I never remember to take step by step photos when I am in the process. The short of it is this. I bought a vintage foot stool at an auction months ago. I paid $1 for it. Silly me was worried that someone else might be interested, so I set my max purchase price at $3. Needless to say, I didn't have to worry. Ha

In the beginning...

The mustard yellow is lovely correct? This sat in my poor husbands office for many months. Finally, I decided to use the fabric I had set aside to do my folding chairs with on this project. I have never done anything like this before. I have no upholstering experience, and I don't really even know if this counts as one! It was more like fold the fabric like a Christmas present, staple underside, flip over. Woohoo. haha. I did one more step and took the legs off (they just unscrew) and spray painted them black. They originally had little metal "socks" on them, and I just spray over all of it. 

Haven't painted the legs yet...

In it's place! My camera is old, so the colors are way off. But it's a nice mix of purple, grey and black!

This is my finished project. You can still see the lines where the leather (might have been fake leather) had been. I am personally very happy with it, and that is the key to a project! They don't all have to be store bought perfect! This fits lovely in front of my corner chair, and my cat has adopted it as her new bed. Everyone in the family is happy! :)

Total cost = $5 :)